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Flow is no accident.

Method over luck. For people and teams who want to stay alive, not just functional.

Max Gotzler combines biohacking and flow psychology: health as the foundation, flow as the goal, aliveness as the result, with a method. Founder of Flowgrade, author of Die Flow-Formel, host of the Flowgrade Show and organiser of the flowFEST in Munich.

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Three ways to work with Max Gotzler

Keynotes

Sixty minutes, and a room starts talking about performance differently.

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Teams

Eight weeks of support instead of one good day. Page in German.

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Retreats

Five nights, eight people, Portugal. Held in German.

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Max Gotzler on stage at flowFEST in front of a full auditorium

Flow

Four phases. Always the same.

01

Resistance

First your mind pushes back. That's not a bug. That's the cover charge.

02

Letting go

At some point, fighting stops working. Then it goes quiet.

03

Flow

Clarity, focus, no sense of time. And none of it comes on command.

04

Renewal

No recovery, no next flow. The phase almost everyone skips.

The cycle goes back to Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson and was popularized by Steven Kotler. What the state itself depends on was described by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. Together they are the backbone of my book Die Flow-Formel and the reason I stopped believing in motivational talks.

Max Gotzler at a mountain lake in winter

Resistance is the cover charge you pay to get into the flow club at all. And there's no back door.

From Die Flow-Formel, translated
Max Gotzler in the forest

Where I stand

Control less. Live more.

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Max Gotzler on stage
“Our team came away with more than good ideas. They came away with thoughts that are still with us today.”
Stefanie WolffDirector Brand Communications, Merz Lifecare · translated from German

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